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ALEZ 0.4 is a very significant release because this is the first version of the Arch Linux Easy ZFS installer (or any Linux distro) to let you install to ZFS complete with datasets pre-configured so as to work with the new zedenv GRUB boot environment plugin. Thanks to John Ramsden, author of zedenv, for submitting the required changes.

When you create a new boot environment using zedenv using this GRUB-friendly ZFS configuration, zedenv will update your GRUB config to add a new GRUB menu entry, allowing for bulletproof system upgrades, instant system restores and much safer and easier testing of software under Linux than was previously possible.

zedenv is still in testing and needs to be built from git to use the grub plugin hence zedenv packages are not included yet.

The archlinux-alez-2018.10.13 install ISO includes:

Linux 4.18.12
zfs-linux 0.7.11
ALEZ 0.4

Write it to a USB drive or burn to a disc as you would regular Arch Linux.

MD5:

e2b7deafaff75ee422576702602ccccb archlinux-alez-2018.10.13-x86_64.iso

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